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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:37:57 GMT Message-ID: <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM> References: <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM> <1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com> Lines: 24 In article <1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com> terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes: >1) SysVr3.x has got to be SVR3.2 or later. It didn't include streams > prior to that. Some platforms had STREAMS as early as SysVr3.0. >2) OSF has licensed Mentat streams for inclusion, not AT&T. The code > is un-AT&T-encumbered, and runs on many diverse platforms (for > instance, it also runs on VMS). That's nice. They also bought a SysVr3.x license, about three or four years ago, and the code they are shipping as "OSF/1," for both the macro- and micro-kernel stuff, still requires a USL source license, if you want source. >3) OSF/2 is the beast of interest, and it is based on Mach 3.0. OSF/2 does not exist, nor is there any guarantee from OSF that they will ever ship a Mach3.0-based system. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah sef@kithrup.COM | complex. But I forgive him." -----------------+ -- Jim Carrey Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.